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From: wfh58@leah.albany.edu (William F. Hammond)
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Subject: Re: ArpShell Problem - Parameterexpansion
Summary: stale command?
Keywords: ARP Shell
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.202924.1141@sarah.albany.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 91 20:29:24 GMT
References: <1991Jan7.111054.29570@uni-paderborn.de> <142@dogmelb.dog.oz.au>
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In article <142@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
>In article <1991Jan7.111054.29570@uni-paderborn.de>, nick@uni-paderborn.de
>(Martin Koch) writes:

>> I have a little problem with the Arp-Shell (ASH)
>>
>> if I call a Shell-Skript with more than one parameter sometimes the
>> Parameters are not transferred correctly

>Well, there you go. You have found the bug.
>
>There is a well documented feature of the Arp execute and script handling.
>

This describes a symptom that I found with the version of ARP 1.3 "execute"
that I had from March, 1989 until August, 1989.  I received a corrected
version of "execute", several other ARP 1.3 commands including "mount", and
the Shell with the version 2.20 release of "TxEd Plus".  The current release
has had heavy use here.  I am aware of only one very small failing in the Shell
and a quirk with "list" in which if there is a named specific file (not a
directory) with no pattern tokens, the file does exist, and the "sort" switch
is set then the file will not be shown.  (But note that it is not "logical" to
use the "sort" switch when naming a specific file.)

The revised ARP 1.3 materials offer a substantial enhancement of the standard
1.3 shell interface.

Alas, the revised ARP 1.3 materials are not freely distributable.

>Email: david@dogmelb.dog@munnari.oz    |    Division of Geomechanics,

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William F. Hammond                   Dept. of Mathematics & Statistics
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